Goodyear develops eJob in drive to digitise tyre business

Goodyear has launched an enhanced version of its eJob automated fleet inspection tool. From a fleet perspective, eJob offers full transparency of all maintenance and fleet inspections carried out, visible within seconds of job submission, from anywhere in Europe. The application is designed to support Goodyear FleetOnlineSolutions (FOS). According to the company, the new advanced platform provides fleets and tyre dealers managing fleets full overview including all vehicles, their location, applied tyre policy and agreed terms as well as warranty.

The application can be installed on an Android tablet (OS 7 and above) and enables tyre technicians to record and transmit tyre data as well as send pictures to the end-customer from any location in Europe. All data is instantly transmitted via Goodyear FleetOnlineSolutions and offers truck operators full transparency on the tyre management provided. The fleet customer can virtually see the condition of the tyre, reason for the exchange and list of work done by its service partner.

With a simple barcode scan, the technician registers all key tyre data directly from the manufacturing database, including tyre name, product code, size and type, original tread depth as well as agreed maintenance policy by the customer. New features of eJob include also the management of stored customer tyres as well as completed and synchronized jobs.

eJob is available to service providers, in multiple languages and is an integral part of Goodyear Total Mobility.

“Regular fleet inspections increase uptime and prevent potential tyre related issues and costs however they can be time consuming for a business that is always on a deadline. Checking a fleet of fifty vehicles can easily take up to twenty hours. The latest version of eJob takes the fleet inspection process to a next level providing full automation from tyre registration, recording of remaining tread depth and tyre pressure as well as planning the next steps in the tyre maintenance and management process”, Maciej Szymanski – director marketing Europe for Goodyear’s Commercial Business Unit.

Kamil Triska of quality service network Pneumaster in Poland praised the system’s usability: “The new version of eJob allows our teams to further increase work efficiency and excel customer satisfaction. Since we have used eJob we have been able to better plan our work, reduce administrative tasks, optimise stock management and service our customers faster. The tool is really user-friendly and brings important time savings, the transparent reporting is greatly appreciated by our fleet customers”

“To perform as a craftsman, you need the best tools. For us, a professional fleet check is involving FleetOnlineSolutions and eJob. Capturing tyre data manually on paper is just unthinkable for us nowadays. With the help of an RFID-chip in the tyre, we are able to identify each tyre based on direct manufacturer data. Via the advanced eJob application, all tread depth and air pressure measures per wheel position are automatically loaded via Bluetooth in FleetOnlineSolutions offering full transparency and exact data to our fleet customers”, Max Kienberger, Kfz-Meisterbetrieb Helmut KienbergerHelmut Kienberger, large fleet service provider in Germany, testified.